Pasadena-based tech company NextGate will be showcasing this month new healthcare industry solutions that use facial recognition software – technology that until recently was limited to security and law enforcement applications – to improve record-matching acc... More »
Only 46 hours after after a man hurled a pyrotechnic device into a crowd of diners in The Cheesecake Factory in Old Pasadena, the popular eatery was struck by a second, unrelated mishap when a careening car smashed into its exterior and nearly struck a famil... More »
A banquet room packed with business owners, neighbors, and what Altadena Chamber of Commerce President Billy Malone endearingly called “those artist types” celebrated home and community Friday at the 93rd Annual Altadena Chamber of Commerce Awards and Installa... More »
Pasadena police officers are searching for at least two men in a black SUV armed with a handgun who went on a brazen armed robbery spree at three locations within an hour on Thursday night. Two of the robberies occurred a single block apart on one street, Nort... More »
At the ACT candidates forum on January 10, all City Council candidates were asked if they supported a “just-cause eviction ordinance.” We heard Fifth District Councilmember Victor Gordo, whose official City biography emphasizes his high school athletic accompl... More »
The Pasadena Fire Department has named Dr. Roger Yang as its new Medical Director in an announcement today. In this position, Dr. Yang provides advice and coordinates the medical aspects of field care as defined by the Los Angeles County Department of Health S... More »
Sleepypod, a Pasadena-based company known for redefining pet products, unveiled Tuesday its newest crash test dog that provides Sleepypod engineers with measurable data to enable them to create safer car restraints for pets. The new model, DUKE 2.0, is equippe... More »
HCAP Partners, a San Diego-based private equity firm, has announced the sale of Vertical Management Systems, Inc. (VMS) in Pasadena to NewSpring Holdings, LLC, the dedicated control buyout strategy of NewSpring Capital. VMS is a leading technology innovation f... More »
A Pasadena man who shot and killed his live-in girlfriend, her 91-year-old father and a Good Samaritan in a shooting rampage in Pasadena in 2014 was sentenced Wednesday to 181 years to life in prison, the District Attorney’s Office announced. John Izeal Smith... More »
On January 29, 2017, a Sierra Madre Police officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for a vehicle code violation. Further investigation revealed the driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle driving with an expired driver’s license and the vehicle’... More »
Pasadena police officers arrested a 37-year-old homeless man Monday afternoon after he alleged blocked traffic with his bicycle and then struck at a vehicle with a machete. Luckily, the vehicle’s driver, a 48-year-old Pasadena woman, was able to drive away and... More »
Pasadena-based Brazil Minerals, Inc. said Monday one of its subsidiaries has purchased a large centrifugal concentrator, which will be installed this week in one of its gold and diamond modular recovery plant in the Jequitinhonha River valley in Brazil. With t... More »
